The 5th edition of Tirana International Film Festival is honoured to have as a part of the International jury, the OSCAR nominee American documentary director Sam Green.

Sam Green’s documentary films have been featured in a number of festivals, among them Sundance, the London Film Festival, and the Amsterdam International Documentary Festival. Green’s recent documentary The Weather Underground was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary and was included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. His work has also received Best Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Critic's Choice Award at the Locarno Film Festival, among other honours. He currently teaches at the University of San Francisco.